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Freedom of Information: numerical junk via the BBC

Thanks to a Freedom of Information request through great new site whatdotheyknow.com, you can get a rough idea of which UK ‘nation’ paid what for the BBC, as of March 31, 2008. It’s pretty precise:

June 25, 2008
Interns. Selecting out the news?

The New Republic on the problems of internship in journalism: [T]he internship culture … rewards young people who know exactly what they want to do and immediately begin strategizing about how to get there…

June 25, 2008
Data is dead

Some in journalism wonder if the story as an aggregate of verbal fact and reaction is losing its hold (See Kevin Marsh – The Story Is Dead). Now Brad King has weighed in with an interesting contribution – 5 Reasons The Story Is Dead.

June 24, 2008
The next Len Downie: A Source familiar with his own thinking?

I’m not even familiar with my own thinking, so I loved this bit of tortured sourcing about possible successors to Len Downie at the Washington Post: A source familiar with [Marcus] Brauchli’s thinking says he is eager to return to editing a newspaper, two months after being pressured into resigning from the [Wall Street] Journal,…

June 23, 2008

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